chicago and detroit? i spent time in both places, anybody who have been to those places say chicago's nothing like detroit, and look at the reasons that it actually doesn't make sense they would be on the same path. chicago, different city than detroit in that there's a strong tax base, a growing population. detroit's population, you know, famously has slunk dramatically. there's companies moving into town, boeing recently relocated its corporate headquarters here, and it's also a multiindustry city, not like detroit with a single industry that drives the town, but here's how they are the same. pensions, it comes down to pensions. municipal pensions. chicago has four pension funds, short about $20 billion. they got a budget deficit of about three-quarters of a million dollars. moody's downgrade the the city, and it's not going to get better as time goes on. in 2015, a new state law requires even more to be put into the pension funds, and that could cause property tax increase of maybe a hundred to 150%. a